Universal agent, one who is appointed to do all the acts which the principal can personally do and which he may lawfully delegate the power to another to do. Such an universal agency may potentially exist, but it must be of the rarest occurrence. And indeed it is difficult to conceive of the existence of such an agency practically, inasmuch as it would be to make such an agent the complete master, not merely dux facti but dominus rerum the complete disposer of all the rights and property of the principal. The law will not from general expressions, however broad, infer the existence of any such universal agency; but it will rather construe them as restrained by the principal business of the party in respect to which it is presumed his intention to delegate the authority was principally directed, Story's Agency, 18.
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